Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware

2016-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
tion instead, which >could possibly also include non-free drivers for certain software >components later. Please let's *not* mix things up like that. A number of us already had this discussion at DebConf: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/msg00622.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware

2016-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
better. I understand that may be more awkward to implement in terms of directories... :-) >Finally we need to identify the packages that should move there. I >guess all non-free packages named "firmware-*" would be a good match. IME there are also some matching "*-firmwa

[br...@bstinson.com: Distributions Devroom CFP]

2015-11-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
m Program Committee ___ distributions-devroom mailing list distributions-devr...@lists.fosdem.org https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/distributions-devroom - End forwarded message - Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einva

Re: Bug#802595: ITP: node-defined -- return the first argument that is `!== undefined`

2015-10-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Josh Triplett wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> YA tiny Javascript "library" containing 3 lines of utterly trivial >> code. :-( >> >> I appreciate you're just following through a dependency chain from >> upstream for tape, but please push b

Re: Bug#802595: ITP: node-defined -- return the first argument that is `!== undefined`

2015-10-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
his kind of ridiculous split-up. Code re-use in general is a good plan, but not at the level of every trivial helper function being split out into its own library! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will

Re: DAK Commands for Bikesheds

2015-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
; and don't hardcode this naming >> in the suggested API. It was funny during one Debconf talk... but it won't >> be funny in the long term. > >I disagree. Ditto. It's a memorable name that quite well describes some of the usage it's likely to see. It may be fun

Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

2015-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
eady; Linaro is offering access to ARMv8 devices for upstream porting too. [1] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/ARM_ports_BoF.webm [2] http://www.einval.com/~steve/talks/Debconf15-state-of-the-arm/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st

Re: debian-update-8.1.0-source-DVD-1 checksum different

2015-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
onfig file and built something claiming to be 8.1.0 again. I hadn't realised the error escaped into the final 8.2.0 checksums files. Fixing... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I'v

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

2015-08-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
o do the same in Debian. If there's no sensible way to do controlled web development, let's just drop this from Debian *now*. We can continue having the discussion about how to make things better and providing clue to clueless upstreams, but in the meantime this is a

Summary of the DebConf firmware discussion

2015-08-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
stuck using devices that need non-free firmware. Please help if you're interested! [1] http://www.einval.com/~steve/talks/Debconf15-Firmware/gobby-notes.txt [2] http://lwn.net/Articles/655519/ or http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655519/37226424e831fa9d/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

2015-08-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
to be more >> counterproductive than anything else. >I tend to ignore it and find it annoying noise. You might as well say >"abandon packaging certain types of webapps in Debian" for all the use >some of the discussion is. So you don't consider shipping programs/

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

2015-08-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
cript ecosystem mature a bit >more but in the meantime, a bit of tolerance would be appreciated for >the some of us needing to package some javascript bits. Why should we be tolerating setups where it's not clear that we can reproduce what's being shipped? --

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
chieve here, and I strongly believe that it is a significant backwards step for Debian. We should not be doing this and making things worse for our users without (at the very least!) discussing it properly first. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com <

Re: system upgrade by systemd

2015-08-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
of packages, instead of putting the >conflicting packages on hold. Looks like it's probably worth uninstalling all of the packagekit stuff if you don't want this horrendous anti-feature. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further c

Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

2015-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
be that 3 bytes / 6 hex digits are easy enough >to remember in the short term memory when you need to type a command. 6 >hex digits are also regularly used as short git references for that same >reason. Good suggestion, yes. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
X person >> are... > >Perhaps unix/posix tasks would satisfy such folks. IIRC we agreed on such a thing the last time we had this discussion? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned fro

Re: debian github organization ?

2015-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
te to >> the F/OSS community where upstreams are. > >That last part seems to deny the D in DVCS. Why are we under such >pressure to use one particular centralised service? Agreed - it's really annoying to see everybody clamour for a centralised single point of of

Re: motd handling in jessie & beyond

2015-01-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
sshd's pam configuration (and in Ubuntu, > login's). AFAICS there remain silly unfixed bugs in the Ubuntu setup too, which I've reported and never seen any progress on - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/684244 If you want to take this stuff into Debian

Re: debian-efi mailing list

2015-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <20141216233320.gg14...@einval.com> I wrote: >On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:00:34PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>Hi folks, >> >>I'm thinking it might be useful to set up a specific debian-efi >>mailing list to help as a central space for discussio

Re: debian-efi mailing list

2014-12-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 07:00:34PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hi folks, > >I'm thinking it might be useful to set up a specific debian-efi >mailing list to help as a central space for discussion about (U)EFI >issues and support in Debian. > >There's been quite a

Re: Can/should we have an efi/efi-any platform architecture?

2014-12-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
hich is very different to m68k/atari and the like. On a related front... see other mail. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever writte

debian-efi mailing list

2014-12-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
e and we'll see how far we get. [1] https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: Where to upload official OpenStack Debian images?

2014-10-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:58:04PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: >Hi, > >On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> >> On 07/18/2014 07:49 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> [2] I contacted Steve McIntyre privately about it, but he didn't rep

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
was just about to suggest that myself. at, cron, an MTA, and locate >seem good candidates for that task too. +1. Makes a lot of sense, I agree. Maybe also move across: bind9-host dnsutils host bsd-mailx lsof (?) patch (?) procmail time (?) whois -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Summary from the "State of the ARM" BoF at DC14

2014-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
projects! Expect to see more of them soon! [1] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/State_of_the_ARM.webm [2] http://www.einval.com/~steve/talks/Debconf14-state-of-the-arm/ [3] https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port [4] http://ds.arm.com/debian [5] https://lists

Re: PackageKit cleanup: Do you use these functions?

2014-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ansgar wrote: >On 09/11/2014 15:30, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Please push back hard against this - the offline-updates "feature" is >> a joke. Let's not try to emulate the worst bits of Windows any more >> please. > >Well, online updates do bre

Re: PackageKit cleanup: Do you use these functions?

2014-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
quot; is a joke. Let's not try to emulate the worst bits of Windows any more please. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14

2014-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
te it takes a long time to generate all the HTML. It's possible to just rebuild small parts of the site, but that can be risky and can cause bugs. Could we use po4a / gettext for www translation? Maybe - we need people to work on this to see if we can make it work.

Summary from the d-i / debian-cd BoF at DC14

2014-09-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
bian_installer_and_CD_BoF.webm [2] http://www.einval.com/~steve/talks/Debconf14-installer-cd/ [3] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie [4] https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/138/tasksel-default-desktop-requalification/ [5] http://meetings-archive.d

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 02:33:06AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre (2014-09-08): >> This is (almost) exactly what's being worked on after discussions at >> DebConf. By removing some of the less useful tasks, we'll be able to >> add some extra more usef

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
(almost) exactly what's being worked on after discussions at DebConf. By removing some of the less useful tasks, we'll be able to add some extra more useful options. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the c

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
27;re ready for it already, could you set up tasks for Cinnamon too? If you do that, we could make it easier for d-i and CDs to set Cinnamon up as a desktop option using tasksel. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the c

Re: Keysigning at Linaro Connect US (Burlingame, 15 - 19th September 2014)

2014-09-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
or if anyone else is in the >same situation as me we could organize a key signing session in one of >the hack rooms. Yeah, there's likely to be plenty of DDs at Connect to help you bootstrap a new key. I'll be honest and say I'd totally not realised you were a DD - you kept it q

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
org/cgit/debian-cd/debian-cd.git/tree/tools/update_tasks -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: systemd service and /etc/default/

2014-08-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
nding this? >Maybe because the others do not care enough about improving software >quality. Marco, *You* may think your retorts like this are clever, but they're really not helpful. Instead, they make you look like a dick. Please stop. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Where to upload official OpenStack Debian images?

2014-07-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
ot;openstack-debian-images" package for which I'm also upstream [1]. > >How can I make this happen? > >Cheers, > >Thomas Goirand (zigo) > >[1] The simple command is: >build-openstack-debian-image -r wheezy > >[2] I contacted Steve McIntyre privately about i

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
those versioned >> symbols), other distros aren't covered, as well as binaries not >> compiled on debian. > >Why should we care about other distros? Do they have an impact on us? Please tell me that you're joking... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
kapo...@melix.org wrote: >Le samedi 12 juillet 2014 à 12:03 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : >> >> Right. Did you discuss that with ftpmaster or anybody else outside of >> the javascript team? There's typically been a consensus against very >> small packages co

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
of the standard library where these could be attached? And I've got to ask: for the couple of trivial examples that Frederick pointed out - why on earth do these even exist as libraries instead of being inlined wherever they're needed? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:55:02PM +0200, Leo Iannacone wrote: >On 12 July 2014 12:35, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> tack:~/debian/ms.js$ wc -l index.js >> 111 index.js >> >> Am I missing something, or is the working code in this package really >> just 11

Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility

2014-07-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
bian/ms.js$ wc -l index.js 111 index.js Am I missing something, or is the working code in this package really just 111 lines? Why isn't this bundled up into something more reasonable in size for the packaging system? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.c

Re: GR - collecting proposals (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
t...@debian.org wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>with this constant bickering and sniping. If you must do it, start the >>GR and see how that goes. I even offer to second it just to help get > >Can you help formulate? I do not feel my English skills are >up to that.

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
o go the GR route, then please quit whining. You're achieving nothing but making yourself look bad. We're 4 months from the Jeesie freeze and we all have better stuff to be doing than posting repetitive crap on the lists like this. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:16:05PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Guile language support in make"): >> Russ Allbery wrote: >> >I think building two separate binaries makes more sense than adding Guile >> >support by default for all t

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
ource packages. Make is *so* far down the bottom of the stack that adding a dependency on another language could cause significant problems. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/caf

Re: ld.so for multiarch and multilib installed at same time

2014-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 06:49:49PM +0800, Yunqiang Su wrote: >On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Yunqiang Su wrote: >>>On amd64 system: >>> >>> libc6-i386 make /lib/ld-linux.so.2 link to /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 and link >>> to

Re: ld.so for multiarch and multilib installed at same time

2014-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
were encountered while processing: > > >I also tried to repack libc6:mipsel to link /lib/ld.so.1 to >/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu/ld.so.1 >instead of ld-2.18.so directly. >It aslo has the same problem. Well, you're still trying to replace the same file (link) on dis

Re: automatic autoconf config file updating

2014-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
issue (although it is a trivial fix >> that anyone can get right in this case)). > >I don't think we should diverge from upstream autoconf here. Why? I've not seen any good arguments as to why they're right here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Honestly, fork systemd

2014-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
t can be and make Debian >with systemd the strongest system it can be. I hope others will do the >same. Very well put, and a good thing to say. I also personally *really* dislike systemd for a range of reasons, but let's move on and make things work in Debian as best we can. -- Steve

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
advice. In the case of skia, is is actually useful to package it? Upstream explicitly don't do releases, semmingly because they don't believe in them at all. The recommended way of using it is to embed a copy - ugh! (Background: I've contributed code to skia myself

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
Zack wrote: >On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:57:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > I would not be opposed to changing the default for xfce for now, and >> > reverting it if gnome's improvements make it a better choice. >> >> OK. I suggest that we *try* that f

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
'm not 100% convinced that it's likely to give us enough beyond the netinst to make me care about it. What else would we want/need on a CD to make it compelling here? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual

Re: Proposal: Let's have a GR about the init system

2013-10-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
see loads of really pro >statements. I think you're seeing a pattern that's not really there, to be honest. I've seen a lot of people on LWN et al just get so bored of the systemd discussion that they've just stopped contributing. Then there are the hard-core zealots on both

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
are the supported >ones?" and "which is the default one?") clearly belong to the tech-ctte >at this point. Agreed 100%. Let's see what they have to say. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual F

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little >> discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the >> day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I >> feel. Let&#

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andy Cater wrote: >On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41:42AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> I guess not everybody understands the reasons for Debian choosing a >> default desktop, so I'll explain/expand them here. >> >> 1. We have several types of installation

Hostile upstreams (was Re: Proposal: ...)

2013-10-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
tile upstream != GPL / CDDL incompatabilities. I don't know how aware you are of the history with Schily; a hostile upstream with a willfully strange interpretation of how GPL works is worse than just GPL / CDDL incompatibilities. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Proposal: s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
o vote against their >project, especially since canonical is isolating itself from the rest >of the community, so having Debian support is, I guess, really >important, so -1, Troll. Please apologise to the TC members immediately for your insinuations of corruption, or go away and don

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
gligible set of users owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. I'm not 100% convinced myself of how large or critical this use case is, but that's the information I have. We *could* just drop all the CD sets and be done with it, just keeping the netinst CD an

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Wolodja wrote: >On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little >> discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the >> day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
James wrote: >On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Let's change the default desktop for installation to xfce. >> ... >> Pros: >> >> * CD#1 will work again without size worries >> >> * Smaller, simpler desktop &

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andrei wrote: >On Jo, 24 oct 13, 16:40:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little >> discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the >> day for the change to make sense

Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
again without size worries * Smaller, simpler desktop * Works well/better on all supported kernels (?) * Does not depend on replacing init Cons: * [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/08/msg00055.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adrian wrote: > >Well, Debian is aiming for full systemd integration with Jessie, so >there is that. Ummm, no. You and some others might be, but not Debian as a whole AFAICS. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Au

Re: s390 removed from jessie

2013-10-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
stuff for a while, but we'll not be using or testing that code any more in sid/jessie. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: Results of the porter roll call (Was: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing)

2013-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
++---++-- >> armel || 3 || 0 || 1 ||4 >> armhf || 3 || 1 || 2 ||6 > >> armel: Wookey (DD), Gatis Visnevskis (!DD), Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (DD), Steve >> McIntyre (DD) >> armhf: Jeremiah Foster (!DD, but NM?), W

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
g to release and use their code. It seems that releasing tarballs isn't cool enough for the 'leet github generation, but tags and reproducibility still matter. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Ex

Re: Nitpicking in the NEW queue.

2013-09-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Paul Wise wrote: >Reading Charles' mail I had a thought; how about accepting buggy >packages (unless the issues make them non-distributable) and file RC >and other bugs if there are DFSG or other issues? Why should we rush to let more broken stuff into the archive? -- Steve McInt

Re: new hashes (SHA512, SHA3) in apt metadata and .changes files?

2013-08-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
re/stronger checksums are used for verifying the complete images. Changing jigdo to use a different checksum would not be impossible, but very involved and I'm not really convinced it would be worth it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: system time has change while installing

2013-06-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 05:27:56PM +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: >On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:39:31 +0100 >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >[...] > >> Storing local time in the hardware clock is utterly wrong for many >> reasons. The only reason Microsoft have continued to ship

Re: system time has change while installing

2013-06-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
there is no good reason to perpetuate the crap this way: store UTC and leave the clock alone. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: > >> Matthias wrote: >> > >> >Please also keep in mind that many upstream projects ship systemd service >> >files. Therefore, most of the systemd work is already done too. >> >> Most? Really? D

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
is better than no basis at all. >> (I can see how my phrasing was a bit confusing -- sorry about that) > >Please also keep in mind that many upstream projects ship systemd service >files. Therefore, most of the systemd work is already done too. Most? Really? Do yo

Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)

2013-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sune wrote: > >I fought quite hard against the copyright file format but was promised >that it wouldn't be something required. >I do think it is sad that people are already changing minds now. Agreed. It's a nice-to-have for the the people that care, but that's all. --

Re: DPA instead of PPA

2013-05-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
3.8 from the GNOME Team bikeshed" actually sounds like a >reasonable sentence to write. :-) +1 for the "bikeshed" name. I think it's a *perfect* fit! :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
fault. That *alone* sounds like a good argument for switching, to be honest... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Bug#704686: ITP: ruby-arr-pm -- RPM reader and writer Ruby library

2013-04-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
issues that >Wouter has raised in the bug¹ > >¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=22;bug=688896 Quite, I'm concerned on that front too. Do we want to encourage or make it easier for people to use tools that don't care about our packaging po

Re: Bug#704686: ITP: ruby-arr-pm -- RPM reader and writer Ruby library

2013-04-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ely librpm *is* available on all the systems we support? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "It's actually quite entertaining to watch ag129 prop his foot up on the desk so he can get a better aim." [ seen i

Re: Building and using shared libraries using gccgo

2013-02-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
foo-abi- and put that info in shlibs. > >Use static libraries, Built-Using and frequent binNMUs. Considering the mess that we already have with (for example) Haskell in this respect, I would vote strongly against accepting or pretending to support any more languages in this vein. -- Steve M

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
to _not_ install Ruby *at all*. Given how utterly awful the internals of the language implementation are, I'd happily support dropping Ruby from Debian altogether. Maybe that's just me... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
it may be necessary to have several stage profiles, depending on how big a potential package loop you need to break. In this case, you'll need to have through to listed for that package. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the te

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems (was: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev)

2012-11-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adrian wrote: > >If both Ubuntu and Gentoo would just go with the rest of the community >and accept systemd, we wouldn't have to bother whether udev runs >without systemd or not. Please drop the systemd propaganda crap. We get enough of that from Lennart already. -- Steve Mc

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
it address space won't cut it (databases, iceweasel :-)) The partial architecture idea is hardly new, and it's one of the places where multi-arch can give us really big advantages once we get everything using it. Downsides: the usual work involved in getting a new port going. So, s

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
it now instead of after the end of the merge window. I'd like to get my EFI changes merged, please. A small set of changes in d-i packages, plus minor bootloader updates. The biggest change is a tweak to the d-i build process for debian-cd_info.tar.gz (to add EFI images). -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-09-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
vante, you've been causing trouble for a long time now, using the excuse of being a Hurd porter. I've been tempted to kill-file you for a while. But this particular message from you is so far out of line that I feel it needs a response. Calm down and apologise, or I will ask that the lis

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:11:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> People have worried about it, but I think the consensus from DebConf >> is that we don't want to be hampered in our own development by >> considering external users > >How are

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
what makes most sense is >> to switch all base packages to explicitly compress with gzip and then >This looks like a lot of work for a dubious gain. Agreed. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd

Re: Bug#685186: IA64 (Itanium) Wheezy, ELILO installation failed, patch proposal

2012-08-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
Linux standard character encoding > is UTF-8 >< bwh> for filenames, at least >< bwh> So, assign to whatever contains the debian/elilo.sh script > >So reassigning to elilo. Ah, OK. I saw this while getting elilo to work for amd64/efi too, and assumed it was work

Re: EFI BoF at DebConf

2012-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
issed that part of the spec and I wasn't clear how revocation is meant to work. ... >FWIW the UEFI working group seems to consider it an oversight that only one >signature is allowed per binary, and work is afoot to correct this. But as >with other issues, it's probably too late

Re: tasksel: Default desktop: Gnome→Xfce

2012-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
onsensus over exactly what people want. Currently, I'm thinking an extra 2GB image would be useful. We *do* already have a 4GB image (the first DVD image is deliberately down-sized to 4GB) and CD#1 is close-ish to 1GB. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einva

Re: AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
there *is* actually broken like this, to be honest. But it was one of the concerns raised about the new triplet for armhf, and for a totally new architecture people are/were very worried about the possibility of breakage. There is already historical precedent for breakage in triplet n

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
elves a favour and kill-file him. He's just wasting your time. I wish I could understand why chealer feels the need to do this, but I've ceased caring. *plonk* -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-lin

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
the whole project about it. It is educational and >keeps the voting population informed. Definitely, +1. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT cont

Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:01:21PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >Hi! > >On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 17:19:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> CD sizing problems >> == > >> There has been much discussion about switching packages over to using >> xz co

Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:01:37PM -0600, Paul Wise wrote: >On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Here's a summary of what we discussed in the debian-cd BoF [1] last >> week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video >> team

EFI BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
l [2] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2012/debconf12/high/925_EFI_in_Debian.ogv -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop

"Hijacking packages for fun and profit" BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
e itself instead of WNPP, and use usertags for discovery. [1] http://penta.debconf.org/dc12_schedule/events/926.en.html [2] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2012/debconf12/high/926_Hijacking_packages_for_fun_and_profit.ogv [3] http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/removals

AArch64 planning BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
ch64_planning.ogv [3] http://www.einval.com/~steve/talks/Debconf12-aarch64/ [4] svn://gcc.gnu.org/gcc/branches/ARM/aarch64branch [5] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1207.0/03025.html -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blad

Re: debian wiki BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] > > Anti-spam > - > Much of the work we've done has been to deal with the ever-present > spam problem. The main thrust of that is to stop drive-by s

debian wiki BoF at DebConf

2012-07-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
right and improvements can happen without making it too noisy [1] http://penta.debconf.org/dc12_schedule/events/872.en.html [2] http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2012/debconf12/high/872_wiki.debian.org.ogv -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st.

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